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Full Lay Monks (3rd Year)

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The Rule of Monk Preston (Fourth Section)

 Four Goals: The Four Arms of the Cross.                  

• Right Belief ......... The Holy Scriptures; summarized in The Nicene Creed.

• Right Life ............ "Be ye holy; for I am holy."           The Fruit of the Spirit.

• Right Witness ..... Christ's "Great Commission."        Right Belief and Right Life combined.

• Right Ministry ... "Lord, what would you have me do today?"

 Two Devotions: "But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word."

In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen. 

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Scripture Verse the Four Goals are Based On

Right Belief, Right Life, Right Witness, Right Ministry

"For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding ( Right Ministry);      That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing ( Right Life), being fruitful in every good work ( Right Witness), and increasing in the knowledge of God (Right Belief);" -Colossians 1:9-10

New Testament Greek Terms for the Four Goals

The four New Testament Greek terms for the Four Goals of Right Belief, Right Life, Right Witness, and Right Ministry are: orthodoxy (or orthodoxia), orthozoe, orthomartus, and orthodiakonia.  The word ortho in Greek means right; doxy (or doxia) means belief; zoe means life; martus means witness; and diakonia means ministry. _________________________________________________________

"... and increasing in the knowledge of God;" -Colossians 1:10

• Right Belief (orthodoxy): God's revelation to man of The Holy Scriptures.  Basic essential Christian teaching has been summed up in the pastiche of Holy Scripture known as The Nicene Creed.  The only Creed accepted in common by Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholics, and Protestants.  Accepted as stating correct essential basic Christian doctrine even by those Protestants that reject all Creeds on principle.

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" That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing,"     -Colossians 1:10

• Right Life (orthozoe): Zoe means spiritual life: "the kind of life that is in God himself."  Our conversion experience and our continuing Christian life.  Christ in us...us in Christ.  "Be ye Holy, for I am Holy."  We cannot live the Christian life in our own strength or power.  The Fruit of the Spirit is not our fruit, but the Holy Spirit's.  (Note: bios is the Greek word that means physical life).

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"... being fruitful in every good work," -Colossians 1:10

• Right Witness (orthomartus): Our English word martyr comes from the Greek word for witness.  Christ's "Great Commission" is "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel..."  Right Belief and Right Life combined.  If either our beliefs or our life are not right, our Christian witness is marred.

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"For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;" -Colossians 1:9

• Right Ministry (orthodiakonia): Our English word deacon comes from the Greek word for ministry.  To live daily as a minister, to serve as a servant, after the example of our Lord.  Denying self, taking up our cross and following Christ, dying daily.  "Lord, what would you have me do today?"

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• Memory Verses: Postulant Lay Monks - 1st Year (Index)

• Memory Verses: Novice Lay Monks - 2nd Year (Index)

• Memory Verses: Full Lay Monks - 3rd Year (Index)

• Memory Verses: Full Lay Monks - 4th Year (Index)

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See Also:

• The Rule of Monk Preston

• Apostles, Reformers, Celtic Monks

• Born Again, Celtic, Franciscan

• "St. Patrick's Breastplate"

• Youtube: "St. Patrick's Breastplate Prayer" Sung by: Ken Reed Ensemble

• Every Day a New Beginning

• Daily Prayer: Praying the Hours

• One Daily Hour of Prayer

• How to Pray the Psalms

• Athanasius: Praying the Psalms

• The Three-fold Daily Prayers

• The Seven Historical Hours of Prayer

• Nicene Creed

• Nicene Creed: Scripture Basis

• What All Christians Believe in Common: Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant

• Statement of Faith of The Prayer Foundation ™

• Commentary on the Rule of Monk Preston

• Monk Preston's "Celtic Cross" Teaching

• "Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace"

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